Identifier: criticismmo00chil (find matches)
Title: Art and criticism : monographs and studies
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Paul Renouard (1845-1924), Child, Theodore
Subjects: Art criticism
Publisher: Harper
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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white-robed angel.Here is Hagar, the despairing mother, whom an angel has suc-cored. It has been a burning hot day; in the sky, rosy, lumpyclouds are rolling across an arid landscape of sand-hills, dottedhere and there with parched and stunted shrubs, and undulat-ing away to a distance bounded by tragic forests. Hagar, nothaving the courage to see Ishmael die, has left him in the bush,and sits desolate on the ground, her empty gourd beside her,clad in a sombre blue robe, and wearing a white coiffe overher head. Meanwhile the angel has appeared and spoken, andHagar raises her head and sees a clear spring where the angelstands, and the white robe of the helpful messenger reflected inthe limpid water. Here is another evening effect: An opalineand roseate sky; in the background a group of farm buildingsand cottages; in the foreground a field, some pollard willows, afelled trunk, on which an old man is seated, his head buried inhis hands, dreaming or sleeping. It is a laborer, who is weary
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JEAN CHARLES CAZIN. SOME MODERN FRENCH PAINTERS. 53 with wielding the axe all clay. The hour for rest and recom-pense has come, and beside him stands a white figure, beautifuland compassionate, crowned with golden leaves, whom he doesnot see, but who proffers him a crown, with gestures of conge-lation. In M. Cazins mind this old man is Theocritus, and tin-phantom figure is Nature revealing herself to his idyllic soul.Souvenir de Fete is a decorative and allegorical panel, a vi-sion of the French national fete seen from some lofty stand-point. From the windows of his house overlooking the gar-dens of the Luxembourg M. Cazin saw the vast expanse oftree-tops flecked with the glow of Venetian lanterns, the distantdomes of the Pantheon and Val de Grace garlanded with gas-jets, the vast perspective of Paris gay with lavish illuminations,the fireworks bespangling the sombre blue nocturnal firma-ment with the sudden flash of pyrotechnic stars; and on thesouvenir of this reality he embroidered

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